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Fall 2005
CONTENTS Volume
52, Number 1 Fall
2005
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Joseph R. Oppong and Ezekiel Kalipeni The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa: A Political Ecology Approach / 3 Martha Donkor Marching to the Tune: Colonization, Globalization, Immigration, and the Ghanaian Diaspora / 27 Brennan M. Kraxberger The United States and Africa: Shifting Geopolitics in an “Age of Terror” / 47 Shoko Yamada Socio-Moralist Vocationalism and Public Aspirations: Secondary Education Politics in Colonial and Present-Day Ghana / 71 Pádraig Carmody Transforming Globalization and Security: Africa and America Post–9/11 / 97 BOOK REVIEWS Angela M. Leonard African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame Anne C. Bailey / 121 Philip Havik Portugal in Africa David Birmingham / 123 Donald L. Sparks Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice Catherine Boone / 125 Julius Adekunde Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities Kamari Maxine Clarke / 127 |
Christopher J. Lee The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination Clifton C. Crais, ed. / 129 Phillip A. Cantrell, II Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda Nigel Eltringham Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire Marie Béatrice Umutesi / 131 Timothy K. Welliver Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970 Erik Gilbert / 134 Jon D. Unruh Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 Lise Rakner / 136 Scott Pegg Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges Robert Rotberg, ed. / 137 Phyllis M. Martin For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities AbdouMaliq Simone / 139 Michael Eldridge The Novels of Nuruddin Farah Derek Wright / 141 Books Received / 144 Contributors / 145 |
CONTENTS Volume
52, Number 2 Winter 2005
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Special Issue: African Electronic Publishing Atieno A. Adala and Marion Frank-Wilson, Editors Atieno A. Adala and Marion Frank-Wilson Introduction to Special Issue: African Electronic Publishing/vii Peter Limb The Digitization of Africa/3 Edward A. Miner and Cliff Missen “Internet in a Box”: Augmenting Bandwidth with the eGranary Digital Library/21 Pippa Smart Increasing the Visibility of Published Research: African Journals OnLine/39 Allen Isaacman, Premesh Lalu, and Thomas Nygren Digitization, History, and the Making of a Postcolonial Archive of Southern African Liberation Struggles: The Aluka Project/55 Book Reviews James Gibbs African Drama and Performance, ed. John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan/78 Mohammed Bashir Salau Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, by Sylviane A. Diouf/80 James Burns African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent, by Joseph Gugler/82 Joseph McLaren Broken Lives and Other Stories, by Anthonia C. Kalu/83 |
Brett R. O’Bannon Undermining Development: The Absence of Power among Local NGOs in Africa, by Sarah Michael/85 Loveness Schafer and Mark Schafer The Failure of the United Nations Development Programs in Africa, by Adrien Ratsimbaharison/88 Rebecca Gearhart Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote D’Ivoire, by Daniel Reed/90 Danny Hoffman No Peace No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, ed. Paul Richards/92 Carol Summers Becoming an African University: Makerere 1922-2000, by Carol Sicherman/94 Jon Holtzman The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development, by Katherine A. Snyder/95 Françoise Pfaff Cinema and Social Discourse in Cameroon, ed. Alexie Tcheuyap/97 Michael J. Sheridan Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa, ed. Mats Widgren and John E.G. Sutton/100 Books Received/103 Contributors/104 |
CONTENTS Volume
52, Number 3 Spring 2006
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Danny Hoffman Disagreement: Dissent Politics and the War in Sierra Leone/3 Robert Mbe Akoko and Timothy Mbuagbo Oben Christian Churches and the Democratization Conundrum in Cameroon/25 Mbugua wa Mungai and David A. Samper “No Mercy, No Remorse”: Personal Experience Narratives about Public Passenger Transportation in Nairobi, Kenya/51 Patrick Day A Comparative Study of Crime and Punishment in Ousmane Sembène’s Le Docker Noir and Albert Camus’s L’Estranger/83 Jean Ngoya Kidula Ethnomusicology, the Music Canon, and African Music: Positions, Tensions, and Resolutions in the African Academy/99 Book Reviews Mireille Rosello Studies in North African Film, by Roy Armes/114 Teresa Barnes Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid, by Belinda Bozzoli/116 Derek R. Peterson The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990, by David William Cohen and E.S. Atieno Odhiambo/118 |
Patrick Manning Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery, ed. José C. Curto and Paul E. Lovejoy/120 Lidwien Kapteijns Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, ed. Alex de Waal/122 Karin Berkhoudt Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflict over Natural Resource Management, by Quentin Gausset, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen/124 Rita Kiki Edozie Trade, Development, Cooperation: What Future for Africa?, by Henning Melber/126 Samantha Manchester Earley Hotbeds: Black-White Love in Novels from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean, by Pia Thielmann/129 James Cobbe Apartheid’s Festival: Contesting South Africa’s National Pasts, by Leslie Witz/131 Books Received/132 Contributors/134 |
CONTENTS Volume
52, Number 4 Summer 2006
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Special Issue: Memory and the Formation of Political Identities in West Africa Rose De Jorio Introduction to Special Issue/v Odile Goerg Chieftainships between Past and Present: From City to Suburb and Back in Colonial Conakry, 1890s-1950s/3 Alice Bellagamba Before It Is Too Late: Constructing an Archive of Oral Sources and a National Museum in Independent Gambia/29 Mary Jo Arnoldi Youth Festivals and Museums: The Cultural Politics of Public Memory in Postcolonial Mali/55 Rosa De Jorio Politics of Remembering and Forgetting: The Struggle over Colonial Monuments in Mali/79 Sten Hagberg The Transformation of Ritual Boundaries in Resource-Use Practices in Burkina Faso/109 Book Reviews Mary Carol Hopkins Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress, by Jean Allman/130 |
Todd H. Leedy South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases & Comparisons, ed. Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecomb, and Bill Guest/137 Harvey Glickman Borders, Nationalism, and the African State, ed. Ricardo Rene Laremont/139 Peter Kallaway Educational Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm Lost, ed. Jeanne Moulton, Karen Mundy, Michel Welmond, and James Williams/141 Michael F. Lofchie NEPAD: Toward Africa’s Development or Another False Start?, by Ian Taylor/144 David Schoenbrun The Antecedents of Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom, by Jan Vansina and David Schoenbrun/146 Roderick P. Neumann Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park, by Christine J. Walley/149 Books Received/152 Contributors/154 |
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